Editor of American Atheist magazine claims church/christian daycare a form of child abuse.

In light of a recent news story regarding my Christian Day Care blog, I feel the need to clear a few things up and address the folks that responded on the news site that ran this story.

Despite my comments being taken out of context—I do not feel that all Christian Day Cares are equal to child abuse. I would never say that. It’s a complete exaggeration of my statement.

Please read more than 4 lines of text before spewing your hatred toward people that disagree with you.

My actual stance on Day Care facilities is this: They can be guilty of mentally abusing children if they focus on indoctrination into religion rather than early education, while that child is in early stages of brain development. That’s why I said “choose your child care facility carefully.”

I do stand by this statement that was quoted: “forcing to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse: inducing psychosis with thoughts of good and evil watching over them, as if they are constantly being graded and evaluated. It's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life.”

Your religion is based on faith. They all are. Therefore, teaching your child that you ‘know’ it, or that these things are ‘facts’ is unfair to the child’s educational future. My point here is that many children of Christian families lie in bed at night fearing ‘the Devil,’ or ‘demons,’ or ‘going to Hell.’

I know this because hundreds of former Christians have admitted to me that they suffered from those fears, as did I. Are you willing to say that this level of magical fear is good for them?...

http://www.dogmadebate.com/2010/07/public-response-to-news.html